The CRIB's periodically fugacious concerning people and events of faith ...
- Tolerance, justificatory liberalism, freedom of religion, and California's Proposition 8 ... what they have in common. [First Things]
- I know it's sacrilegious but I think it is creative. [MacCleans]
- Our government is so good to us lowly citizens ... they've agreed to display a copy of our Declaration of Independence in their new $621 million Capitol Visitors Center and even use some God speak (like "In God We Trust") ... well, whoop dee do! [Christian Post]
- Obama family nativity ... HO-HO-HO! [Reyters; h/t Brain-Terminal]
- POLL: One-third of Americans believe OT & NT are word of God
That’s about the same as the percentage of people who believe in UFOs (36 percent) and less than the amount of people who believe in ghosts (44 percent), Harris Interactive found through its online survey.[Christian Post]- David Dockery's reading list for 2008 [Tim Ellsworth]
- Really, except for researchers and theologians, what difference does it really make? [Christian Post]
Showing posts with label Scripture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scripture. Show all posts
Friday, December 12, 2008
FAITH: Ephemeral links by their common ancestry!
Sunday, November 23, 2008
FAITH: Linking the ephemeral by their DNA!
A CRIB offering of the periodically fugacious ... by their common ancestry!Gaggle of gay geeks pushes SF police to perform public service for proselytizing prayer party! [Never Yet Melted (video)]American Jewish thoughts on the unborn's right to life and the seemingly contradictory position on partial birth by Jews in general. Read carefully and in context. [Classical Values]Seems Catholic Cardinals should know that "blistering rants" and "diatribes" are the private preserve of the Main Stream Media and not to be used by men of the cloth. [News Busters]At the time I thought something smelled about the CIA's testimony before congress - a missionary's wife and daughter died - a yet to be detailed Inspector General's report reveals just how bad. [FOXNews]Sure wish I could do what the Ayatollahs have done; Obama has plans of his own [FOXNews; American Thinker]More on the place where the king eaten by worms (Acts 12:23) may have been buried. [Yahoo! News]It's one of the most disobeyed commandments in Scripture ... them and widows (Zechariah 7:9-10; James 1:27) [Christian Post]Though I'm not anti-Catholic, I'm not pro-Catholic either; but good news is good news for Muslim conversions in Kosovo [Balkan Insight; h/t Europe News]Moore on more of Joseph's tailor and Potiphar's wife ... oh yea, and God's will for our lives. [Moore to the Point]Sad to hear some are losing their Focus but I knew it was coming; a sign of the times? [Christian Post]Now this is a horse of another color and curiously fascinating - and I like the adherence to the biblical texts. [FOXNews]
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
PENTECOSTALISM: Some needed questions are asked about Todd Bentley!
In his latest "Fire In My Bones" column, J. Lee Grady asks some needed questions of his faith family ... but I've grown weary of reporting on the embarrassing lives of the Pentecostals and the Episcopalians, so go to Grady's column and read it for yourselves.
I will, however, post the questions so you'll have them in your mind before you get there.1. Why did so many people flock to Lakeland from around the world to rally behind an evangelist who had serious credibility issues from the beginning?2. Why didn’t anyone in Lakeland denounce the favorable comments Bentley made about William Branham?3. Why did God TV tell people that “any criticism of Todd Bentley is demonic”?4. Why did a group of respected ministers lay hands on Bentley on June 23 and publicly ordain him? Did they know of his personal problems?5. Can anything good come out of this?Grady answers his own questions but they leave me as repulsed as did Bentley's original snake oil pitch.
The answers to these questions won't be found in Grady's article, they are simple answers and are found elsewhere! Do you know where?
Friday, July 18, 2008
ANGLICAN ANSWER: Pope Benedict has it right!
Pope Benedict has sent a message to the spiritual head of the Anglican Communion, the Archbishop of Canterbury, urging the hundreds of bishops gathered for a global meeting to find the solution to their divisions in God’s Word.Going to be a little hard to do since 25% of them stayed home; but the Catholic Pontiff has it right ...“The words and the message of Christ are what offer the real contribution to Lambeth and only in being faithful to the message … and God’s words can we find a mature way … to find a road together,” said the Pope in his message to Dr. Rowan Williams this week.I like this Pope, actually more than the one before ... just don't like their soteriology.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
MEGA-ANGLICAN ANGST: A family reunion that's not!
When 25% of a royal family's princes stay away from a once each century family reunion ... you've got a regal knot in your imperial breeches!Church officials said that 230 of the 880 bishops in the Anglican worldwide communion were staying away from the Lambeth conference being staged in the English cathedral city of Canterbury, spiritual home of the deeply divided church.Referring to Gene Robinson, the queer Bishop from New England, who was forced to stay away from Lambeth, and remains the catalytic issue for the boycott, Reuters said ...Robinson, whose decision to be open about his homosexuality provoked so much Anglican angst, agreed it was time for the church to stop being so self-obsessed.How magnanimous!
"With young men knifing each other in the streets of London [a reference to the "growing knife" culture of the capital city] and a billion or more people going through life on less than a dollar a day, what a shame , what a waste it is for the Anglican communion to be tearing itself apart over two men or two women who want to make a Christian family together," he told Reuters.
Your denomination has just certified you a heretic in the least offensive and most unofficial-official way possible (like a director of a corporation being excluded from the firm's annual meeting by the other directors) and you wax eloquent about their corporate failure to stop English violence and global poverty. Not a word about the cause of it all: your personal failure.
Simultaneously, you reveal an extremely low opinion of Scripture's infallibility and inspiration, dissing (by extension) the Creator of the Living Word, thus disparaging the nature and magnitude of it, and ignoring two thousand years of biblical scholarship, as-well-as the collective wisdom of the men and women who were motivated to that scholarship.
Wow! What arrogance!
Apparently Robinson and the Reuters reporter did combine to forecast one likely outcome ...... it will end with a typically fudged Anglican consensus, [the Gay cleric] said "It will drive the press crazy. There will be no resolutions, no proclamations, no lines drawn in the sand."And this is a once in a century conference ... ho-boy! Forgive us all sweet Jesus, Your heart must be heavy these days.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
CUD CHEWING: It seems to me ...
... that it is increasingly difficult for me to separate the secular from the spiritual.
You see, the world is rapidly headed in a direction disastrous for the visible church and "professing" christians (no cap on purpose) but entirely consistent with the prophetic word of God.
For example ...A Moroccan woman was denied citizenship in France because her head-to-toe Islamic veil, which shows only her eyes, was "incompatible" with French gender equality, Reuters reported.Yet this is important: democratic nations must grasp erosion of any nation's sovereignty, no matter the dynamic, is a stone removed from the sovereign foundation of all nations ... accelerating the end to come.On the face of it (ha ha), it's just another story of a nation exerting its sovereign influence over those non-citizens desiring to live in that nation.
For those of us living within democratic, representative borders, we hold dear our hard won freedoms; for us, the specter of globalization engenders fears of losing those freedoms.
You see, no matter what the coming one world government looks like in its initial manifestation, the Bible tells us it will morph into a cruel taskmaster.
So, for me, the story above holds serious secular and spiritual implications; the former for my children and my children's children, the latter those who must must endure the Great Tribulation.
As I read the news each day, I am confronted with reports that tweak my freeborn instincts. On the one hand, concerning the world my family must live in for now; on the other hand, concerning the world to come and its apron of entry.
I just wish I could do a better job of commenting on the news stories, and how they bear on the Good News and His-story.
Monday, April 09, 2007
E-PREACHING: Reading "worth reading" Emails Instead of Preaching From the Word!
There isn't a day I don't receive multiple emails from dear friends or acquaintances with the same subject line "Worth Reading."
I've noticed many of these dear friends (and they are dear, sweet people) insist they're "believers," yet well over 50% of them are wholly or marginally ignorant of Scripture. I wonder how they are able to find the time to read these secular-slices.
I've also wondered at the uniform excuse, "It's hard for me to understand the bible" when asked if they read their bibles. Yet they seem to believe their biblical ignorance will protect them from biblical error in these supposedly biblical emails, which are "worth reading."
I've even seen some say, "I know this isn't biblical but it's so cute" or "so funny." There is a barefaced dichotomy here.
Since I preach from the word, I wonder if preaching from those emails might get more people to stay awake and thereby hear something worth hearing?
Yet the Bible says,"for faith comes by hearing and hearing comes from the word concerning Christ." Romans 10:17
and "we are saved by grace, through faith" Ephesians 2:8
and "without faith it is impossible to please God" Hebrews 11:6
and "faith is the assurance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen" Hebrews 11:1.
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